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Mr. Dwight was married, June 6, 1866, to Cora Charlesina Tallmadge, of Philadelphia, Pa., daughter of Maj. Charles B. Tallmadge, U. S. A., and Mar- garet Kennedy, who survives him. One son died in infancy.
Mr. Dwight died at New Haven, Conn., of a shock to his system, resulting from a fall in his room, by which his thigh was broken, June 28, 1897, aged seventy-one years, ten months, and seventeen days.
CLASS OF 1855.
Elijah Howe, Jr. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Elijah Howe and Prudence Clarke; born in Dedham, Mass., September 27, 1828; fitted for college in Dedham, under the classical teacher supported by Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, D. D. (Class of 1815), and at Phillips Academy, Andover; graduated at Amherst College, 1849; instructor in high school, South Hadley, Mass., 1849-50, and in high school at East Douglas, Mass., 1850-52; studied in the junior class of this Seminary, 1852-53. Feel- ing that his health was not sufficient for the ministerial profession, he left the Seminary, and after teaching one year, 1853-54, in the Academy at South Wilbraham, Mass., he entered business life; was bookkeeper in the Shoe and Leather Bank, Boston, 1854-64; New England agent of the Black Diamond Steel Works, Pittsburg, Pa., 1864-76; secretary of Norfolk Mutual Fire Insur- ance Company, and of the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, from 1880 until his death, and treasurer of the first named company from 1885. He had also been for twenty-one years a trustee of the Dedham Institution for Savings.
Rev. J. B. Seabury of Dedham, Mr. Howe's pastor (Class of 1874), in an obituary notice published in the Dedham Transcript, wrote the following : " Mr. Howe's long residence in this town had made him one of her best known citizens. His familiar face on the street will be missed by young and old alike. He was a man of simple tastes, of unostentatious habits, of conserva- tive temper. He hated sham and pretense. He loved peace; controversy was uncongenial to him. He was a man of scrupulous integrity, of clean-cut and
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independent personality. His opinions were his own, born of his own quick, decisive thinking, expressed in concise and transparent language. As a man of business he was exact, thorough, laborious. His fidelity to trusts imposed upon him was absorbing. For forty years Mr. Howe was an active member of the First Congregational Church ; its treasurer, clerk, a Sabbath school teacher, and a deacon. He was for a number of years moderator of the Allin Evangel- ical Society connected with that church. He was one of its financial supporters, a brother honored and beloved, a counsellor. His ready wit and genial spirit made him many friends. His keen, quick insight made him an invaluable member of the corporation with which he was connected. His convictions were deep and stable, commanding attention and respect."
Mr. Howe was married, January 4, 1857, to Julia Ann Hunt, of East Doug- las, Mass., daughter of Oliver Hunt and Persis Gibson Forbush. She survives him, with two sons; one is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, and physi- cian at Cohasset, Mass., and the other, who is a graduate of Amherst College, 1894, and of Harvard Medical College, 1898, is resident at the Children's Hospital in Boston. Another son died in infancy.
Mr. Howe died of heart disease, at Dedham, Mass., May 7, 1898, aged sixty-nine years, seven months, and ten days.
OLASS OF 1855.
Jacob Ide. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Rev. Jacob Ide, D.D. (Class of 1812), and Mary Emmons ; born in West Medway, Mass., August 7, 1823; prepared for college at Leicester (Mass.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1848; studied law with his uncle, Judge Williams Emmons, at Hallowell, Me., nearly two years; instructor in Lexington (Mass.) Academy ; in Mr. Baker's Chapman Hall School, Boston and (1852-54) in Leicester Academy. Having in the meantime studied theology with his father, and been licensed to preach by the Mendon Association, meet- ing at Mendon, Mass., October 11, 1854, he attended lectures in this Seminary, as resident licentiate, 1854-55. He was ordained as pastor of the church at Mansfield, Mass., March 15, 1856, and remained there until his death.
Although Mr. Ide began the study of law and afterwards was engaged in teaching, his hereditary antecedents were such that it was improbable and improper that he should ever be other than a minister of the gospel. His father, Dr. Jacob Ide, and his grandfather, Dr. Nathaniel Emmons, were each preachers and teachers of theology in their respective country parishes for over fifty years (each of them dying among his own people at the age of ninety- five), and was the descendant in the two previous generations of Rev. Chester Williams, of Hadley, and Rev. Ebenezer Williams, of Pomfret, Conn. ; his brother was a minister and his sister was the wife of Rev. Charles T. Torrey, the anti-slavery martyr, so that he was reared in the midst of marked moral and ministerial surroundings. His own continuous service of forty-two years in a country town, exercising the continuous and accumulating influence of the preacher, the pastor, the promoter of education, of temperance, of patriotism, and of all good things, repeated in a manner notable for this generation the
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olden type of the New England minister. Although there were other churches than his, he still seemed in a certain measure to belong to the whole town; he was in earlier years one of the school committee; he was instrumental in the founding of the public library and the building of the town hall; was president of the library Board of Trustees and delivered the address at the dedication of the hall. Every year he preached a sermon in memory of the soldiers of the town, and more than once delivered the oration on Memorial Day. He repre- sented the town in the Legislature in 1864, and was a member of the State Senate in 1866. He was one of the trustees of Wheaton Seminary at Norton and gave the historical address on its anniversary in 1885.
Rev. H. J. Patrick, D.D., of Newton (Class of 1853), who was a college classmate, made remarks at the funeral of Mr. Ide, from which the following is taken : " This man, now silent, whose voice has been heard in this temple of God for above forty years, is no more. Though dead, he yet speaketh. We bow before the mystery which we cannot understand. One thing we can under- stand - forty-two years of loyal, faithful service here cannot be torn from our hearts. His work has been well done. I wonder how you can get along with- out Mr. Ide. Mansfield will not for years grow beyond the influence he has wrought and the impress he has made. We cannot sum up the importance and the beneficence of his life among this people."
Rev. E. O. Jameson (Class of 1858), for many years pastor in East Medway (now Millis), sends this tribute: "Rev. Jacob Ide, whose sudden death is so widely and deeply lamented, was a man of rare ability, scholarship, and piety. A personal acquaintance of more than twenty-five years exalted him in my respect and gave him a warm place in my heart. He was a man of poetic temperament, scholarly tastes, ready wit, eloquent speech, and tender, sympa- thetic feelings. There met in him the elements of a grand preacher and an excellent pastor. He was faithful, self-sacrificing, loving and beloved. Although small in stature he was a man of commanding presence, influence, and power. His monument of remembrance is in the hearts of the old and young of his parish and of the surrounding churches. It is impossible to estimate in words such a man, such a minister, such a citizen, and such a friend. He did a great work and did it well. His memory is blessed."
Mr. Ide was married, March 24, 1859, to Ellen Maria Rogers, of Mansfield, daughter of Hon. John Rogers and Eliza Williams. She died February 24, 1891. One son survives him, a graduate of the Boston University Law School.
Mr. Ide died in Mansfield, Mass., March 23, 1898, aged seventy-four years, seven months, and sixteen days.
OLASS OF 1856.
Oscar Blakeslee Hitchcock.
Son of Sylvester Hitchcock and Lorinda Blakeslee; born in Windham ("North Settlement," now Ashland), N. Y., May 24, 1828; prepared for college at Delhi (N. Y.) Academy, the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., and Amenia (N. T.) Cominary ; entered Union College in 1850 and graduated in 1852; studied in Yale Divinity School, 1852-53 and 1854-55, spending the intervening year at Poughkeepsie Law School ; graduated from this Seminary,
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1856, and continued study here as resident licentiate, 1856-57, having been licensed by the Essex South Association, at Salem, Mass., January 6, 1857. He also attended theological lectures for a short time at Union and Princeton Seminaries. He preached in the winter of 1859-60 at Owasco Lake and Whit- ney's Point, N. Y., malarial trouble closing his work there. From 1862 to 1865 he was in the hospital service, of which he wrote in connection with his report for the last General Catalogue : "Was acting chaplain of Camp Barry, 1863; in the campaign of 1864 attended the sick and wounded in hospital at Wash- ington and on the transports sailing up and down the Potomac. In 1865 I was in the same service in the Department of the South at Port Royal, subsequently at Savannah and Charleston, and was the bearer of supplies to the last detach- ment of Andersonville prisoners set adrift by the rebels back of Jacksonville, Florida. I went to St. Augustine and remained there until the hospital was closed and the sick and wounded removed to Hilton Head. I was at Hilton Head when Jefferson Davis was made prisoner, and saw him transferred to the ship that took him to Fort Monroe."
After the war he resided at Windham, having charge of his father's estate and of his invalid mother until her death in 1885, without pastoral charge, but occasionally preaching and lecturing. He made repeated and extensive jour- neys in Europe, contributing accounts of them to local journals. He spent the last years of his life in Ithaca, N. Y. Going to a Shelter Island hotel for the benefit of the sea air, he was stricken with paralysis, taken to a hospital, and there died.
Rev. C. C. Thorne, of Windham, N. Y., writes of him: "His sermons were highly prized for their rich imagery, beauty and elegance of expression, and power. His addresses during the war were potent agents in molding public sentiment in favor of the Union cause. As a writer he excelled in poetry as well as in prose. His last production was a poem of three verses, obscurely written on a slip of paper which was found on his person after his death. The closing verse seems to indicate that he knew his end was near:
" ' The hours of childhood and of play Come as in vision back to me ; A vision dim and far away, Like an island in the sea.' "
Having no family, he left a legacy of $500 to the church in his native town, and the residue, about $30,000, together with his library, to his "dear alma mater," Union College.
He died at Shelter Island, N. Y., of paralysis, July 7, 1897, aged sixty-nine years, one month, and thirteen days.
CLASS OF 1857.
Charles Cotton Salter. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Dea. Cleveland Jarman Salter and Eliza Watson Cotton; born in New Haven, Conn., February 19, 1832; the family removing in his boyhood to Waverly, Ill., he fitted for college at Waverly Seminary and at Wyman's School, St. Louis, Mo., in which he was teacher of classics, I852-54; entered
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Yale College in the sophomore class and graduated, 1852; took his junior year in this Seminary, 1854-55; graduated at Yale Divinity School, 1855, having been also tutor in Yale College, 1856-57; licensed by the New Haven East Association, meeting with Prof. Chauncey A. Goodrich, D.D., May 27, 1856; resident licentiate at Andover, 1857-58. He was ordained over the church in Kewanee, Ill., April 20, 1859, and remained until his health broke down in 1861; was chaplain of 13th Connecticut Volunteers, at Ship Island and New Orleans, in 1862, but lung trouble compelled him to come North : became the first settled pastor of Plymouth Church, Minneapolis, Minn., where he remained until 1869, starting the enterprises out of which grew the Park Avenue and Pilgrim Churches; acting pastor at Brookfield, Mo., 1869-71; organized the Pilgrim Church, Duluth, Minn., and its pastor, 1871-76; acting pastor of First Church, Denver, Col., 1877-79; preached in the church of his boyhood, Waverly, Ill., 1880-81, and in his former charge at Duluth, 1881-82; was in Europe, 1882-84, and pastor of the American Church in Florence during the winter of 1882-83; in Brooklyn, N. Y., and other places, without charge; preached for a few months, 1885, at Tampa, Fla. ; removed to Duluth, Minn., in June, 1887, and was pastor of the Bethel Church there until his death.
The life work of Mr. Salter was remarkable in two ways: his pastorates were all brief, being constantly interrupted by ill health, so that he was obliged to take long seasons of rest. Yet always and everywhere he won the hearts of men and wielded influence over them by the simple power of earnest, hearty love. In those last ten years of his life at Duluth, doing voluntary but arduous work, as unsalaried pastor of the Bethel, as chaplain of the Grand Army of the State, as minister of everybody that had no other minister, he gained the grateful affection of a whole city. The day of his funeral is said to have been one of " almost universal mourning in Duluth for its most unpretentious, but best and most beloved citizen." Mr. James W. Osborne, a lawyer residing in a neigh- boring city, a former student in Phillips Academy, writes to one of the Seminary professors, "to tell of the life and death of one of the very best and grandest men that ever went from Andover. When I first went to Andover I went to a farmhouse, with another student, one afternoon to do some work, and the lady of the house, when she knew that I was from the West, wanted to know if I knew ' Charlie Salter' out West, and told me how he was liked for his sunny and cheerful ways -just as he always was in after-life. . .. A good many men can gain the respect of some one class, but it is rare that one can make such strong friends among all classes. The judge of the court in Duluth said that Dr. Salter was without exception the best man he ever knew. The newsboys and bootblacks took up a collection and carried it to a florist to get all the flowers they could with the money for the funeral. The outcasts of the city all went to take a last look at him, and one of the finest lot of flowers on the casket was sent by the bartenders' union of the city."
Rev. Kinsley Twining, D.D., of New York (Class of 1858), writes of him : " Salter was one year before me at Yale, but the conventional wall between sophomore and freshman had no existence for such a warm-hearted man as he, who was ready to break out into sunshine on all occasions. Happen what might, he went his way, glad of heart, and merry in his pure, innocent life, loved by everybody and greeted with applause in all companies; this, too, with- out injury to the solid, serious impression of his life or his work as a student in
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college or at Andover, where I rejoined him in my final year. . . . He was an ideal man for the pastoral ministry, overflowing with enthusiam both for its practical and more spiritual work. Our fields lay far apart, but our paths came together occasionally, and I always got much inspiration from these meetings, and came away from them with the feeling that a plummet had been dropped into my heart deeper than usual, and that higher and more self-sacrificing views had been opened before me. He was a little before me in my course here ; he has gone a little before me to the life above, but I am confidently expecting, in some glad day, to hear again a voice that shall say, 'Here comes Charlie Salter !'"
President Franklin Carter, LL.D., of the Seminary Board of Trustees, sends this tribute : " I made the acquaintance of Mr. Salter in my senior year at Phillips Academy. When I entered Yale College in 1855 he was a student in the Yale Divinity School. In the sophomore year he became my tutor in Latin and was loved by all our class. He treated me from the first as a friend, dropped into my room as though I were on an equality with him, and gave me in the most genial way advice and encouragement. He was a charming per- sonality, one of three who live in my thought as preeminently exhibiting the sunny side of the Christian life in every look and every word. It is surely more than thirty if not more than forty years since I saw him last, and yet his per- sonal presence is as vivid to me and the uplifting power of his personality as real as if I had seen him yesterday. I doubt whether any interview I ever had with him lasted over half an hour - sometimes he would not stay in my room over ten minutes; but the reality, the simplicity, the purity, the sweetness, the Christlikeness of his life I can never forget. I have not been surprised to learn that as a minister he attracted to himself and to his Master all sorts and conditions of men. It is of such a man as he that the assurance of immortality is strongest, and of him we easily believe that 'with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord,' he is 'transformed into the same image from glory to glory.' If all Christian ministers could present the love of Christ in their acts and thought as he did, it seems as if the world would be speedily won to our Divine Lord."
Mr. Salter was married, June 1, 1859, to Maria Vaughan, of New Haven, Conn., daughter of Wanton Vaughan and Sarah Fenner Sprague; she survives him, with three sons and two daughters, two sons having died in childhood.
He died of inflammation of the bladder, at Duluth, Minn., December 19, 1897, aged sixty-five years and ten months.
CLASS OF 1858.
Joshua Metcalf Chamberlain.
Son of Lieut. Eli Chamberlain and Achsah Forbes; born in West Brook- field, Mass., October 2, 1825; fitted for college at Thetford (Vt.) Academy ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1855; took the full course in this Seminary, 1855-58 ; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Prof. E. P. Barrows at Andover, February 9, 1858. He was acting pastor at Dubuque, Io., in 1859; was ordained at Des Moines, Io., December 14, 1859, and continued pastor of the church there until 1865; was agent of the Ameri-
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can Missionary Association in Iowa, 1865-66; supplied the church at Eddyville, Io., 1867-68 ; removed to Grinnell and was ever after connected with Iowa College, as treasurer, 1868-87, and as librarian, 1889-96, having also been for thirty-six years a member of the Board of Trustees, and for twelve years of the executive committee.
From 1869 to 1873 he was connected with the ownership and management of the Grinnell Herald, and from 1881 to 1884 was editor and proprietor of the Grinnell Independent. He was a member of the city council of Grinnell, 1878-80. During his pastorate at Des Moines he officiated with the other clergymen of the city as chaplain of the Iowa Legislature. In 1863 he served in the United States Christian Commission in Sherman's army. Mr. Chamber- lain was an older brother of Rev. L. T. Chamberlain, D.D., of the Class of 1869.
President George A. Gates, D.D., LL.D., of Iowa College (Class of 1880), sends the following tribute : "Mr. Chamberlain came to Iowa in the early days when it was a pioneer State. He took charge of the Congregational Church in Des Moines when that labor was marked by opportunities, as difficult as they were glorious, of foundation work. The memory of his unselfish service to that Des Moines church is still revered in the capital city. He builded charac- teristics into the foundation of the church that have not needed to be relaid. His long connection with Iowa College was marked by the same generous magnanimity. He regarded his service to the college as his life work. He was particularly known among us as a man of careful judgment which was both formed and expressed with grave deliberation. During the ten years in which he was my colleague on the Board of Trustees he was oftener consulted by me than all the other members of the Board together. His long connection with the college made his counsel of the greatest value to me. It was constantly sought in matters both small and large. For seventeen years he was treasurer of the college. During this time he had almost the entire responsibility for the business management of the affairs of the college. Throughout his life in Grinnell, twenty-nine years, he was a foremost citizen. He was no more closely identified with the college than with the town. He was faithful to every obli- gation of church and community and college. He was a man of great dignity of bearing and was universally respected."
Mr. Chamberlain was married, November 20, 1867, to Ellen Fay, of Mus- catine, Io., daughter of Dea. Pliny Fay and Adelia St. John. She died March 30, 1878. He married, second, July 21, 1880, Mrs. Eliza Ann Dike, of Grinnell, Io., daughter of Rev. Stephen Leonard Herrick and Delia Ives, and widow of Charles F. Dike. She survives him. Of four children, one only is living, Miss Mary Chamberlain, a graduate of Iowa College, and instructor in Mills College and Seminary, California.
Mr. Chamberlain died of pneumonia, at Grinnell, Io., November 12, 1897, aged seventy-two years, one month, and ten days.
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CLASS OF 1859.
George Reid Ferguson. (Resident Student.)
Son of Rev. John Ferguson and Margaret Snow Eddy; born in Attleboro, Mass., March 19, 1829; his boyhood was spent in Whately, Mass., where his father was pastor ; prepared for college at Williston Seminary; graduated at Amherst College, 1849; entered upon his profession as a civil engineer, first on the Cochituate Water Works, then with a brother at New Orleans, and for three years, 1850-53, in the survey of the Tehuantepec Railroad in Mexico; then in Tennessee, and for three years in railroad surveys in Ohio; business failing in the financial panic of 1857, he returned home; was converted in the "great awakening " of 1858, and instantly decided to enter the ministry; spent a part of two years in this Seminary, 1858-59, first as resident student, afterwards as resident licentiate, in the meantime having been licensed to preach by the Franklin Association, meeting at Warwick, Mass., July 20, 1859. His first pastorate was over the little church in North East, N. Y. (subsequently removed to Millerton in the same township), where he began labor in 1859, where he was ordained September 5, 1860 (Professor Tyler of Amherst College preaching the sermon), and where he continued until 1874. After teaching a few months at Lakeville, Conn., he was pastor at Torringford, Conn., 1875-77, and then accompanied Rev. Andrew Murray, of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, to Wellington, Cape Colony, where his sister, Miss Abbie P. Ferguson, had already opened the Huguenot Seminary, and where as principal of the Missionary Training Institute he labored for nineteen years, until his death.
The memoir of Mr. Ferguson, published in Wellington, gives abundant evidence of his arduous and fruitful work as teacher, guide, and pastor of the young men of the mission class, whom he prepared and encouraged to enter missionary service, not only in various stations in South Africa but on the shores of Lake Nyassa, in the very heart of the Dark Continent. In his funeral address Mr. Murray said: " In Mr. Ferguson God gave us the very man we needed. At a time when everything like the needful elementary prep- aration was wanting, he gave himself with infinite patience and with wonderful wisdom to meet the needs of his first pupils. In faith and hope he persevered, until the Mission Training Institute became what it is now, and has found recognition as a part of our church organization. Many a time our trustees and other friends who knew him have praised God as they felt how he was a man raised up and prepared and given by God Himself to the work."
Mr. Ferguson was married, January 20, 1864, to Susan Amelia Pratt, of Andover, Mass., daughter of Rev. Miner G. Pratt (Class of 1826) and Caroline Drury. She survives him, with three sons and two daughters, one son having died in childhood. The eldest daughter is associate principal of a girls' school in the Orange Free State; the eldest son, a graduate of the Cape University and of Mansfield College, Oxford, is a Congregational minister in Cape Colony ; the other sons are civil engineers in the Transvaal.
Mr. Ferguson died of pernicious anæmia, at Wellington, Cape Colony, South Africa, June 19, 1896, aged sixty-seven years and three months.
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CLASS OF 1860.
Charles Wheeler Thompson, D.D.
Son of Joseph Warren Thompson and Fanny Wheeler; born in Berlin, Vt., February 26, 1832; prepared for college at Washington County Grammar School, Montpelier, Vt .; graduated at the University of Vermont, 1854, being the leader of his class; principal of Union High School, Burlington, Vt., 1854-57; tutor, University of Vermont, 1856-57; took the full course in this Seminary, 1857-60; licensed to preach by the Suffolk South Association, meet- ing with Rev. J. W. Alvord, at the American Tract Society Rooms, 28 Cornhill, Boston, May 6, 1860. He was acting pastor at St. Johnsbury Centre, Vt., 1861; at Prairie du Sac, Wis., 1861-62 ; at Northfield, Vt., 1863; professor pro tempore of Latin, University of Vermont, 1863-67; preached in summer of 1867 at Lanesville, Mass. ; was ordained pastor of the church in Danville, Vt., July 1, 1869, where he had already preached for several months, and where he remained fourteen years. (During one year of this pastorate, 1878, he preached, as a means of rest, at Winooski, Vt.) He was then acting pastor of churches in North and East Woodstock, Conn., 1883-86, and pastor at Westminster, Vt., from 1886 until compelled by failing health to resign his charge in 1896. (He had for the sake of his health spent the winter of 1892-93 in Roseland, La., supplying the church there.) He continued to reside at Westminster, with the exception of a few weeks spent in the Sanitarium at Clifton Springs, N. Y., from which he returned home the day before his death.
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